U+1F238 "🈸" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7533 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F238 "🈸" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7533 is a pictographic symbol from the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block, representing the Chinese character for "application" or "to apply," enclosed within a square frame. This character is commonly used in East Asian digital contexts as an emoji or symbol for applying for something, such as a job or service, and it conveys a sense of request or submission in a compact, visually recognizable format. Its design originates from the CJK Unified Ideograph U+7533, which carries the same semantic meaning, and the squared enclosure makes it suitable for use in modern interface icons or text-based communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F238 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7533 |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "申" U+7533 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F238 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude38 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "申" U+7533 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "申" U+7533 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Emoji Presentation | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |